Cross-cutting Approaches and Issues Encountered Sample Clauses

Cross-cutting Approaches and Issues Encountered a. Community Mobilization Health centre personnel, Project staff, and the health promoters were the front line staff of the project, and they were in charge of social mobilization, sensitization, and training of CBOs. They were pivotal to reaching the communities. The work they have done with the community has built tremendous trust between them and the community. They made sure that each CBO had a work plan, that it was being followed, and that the CBO was implementing their work and doing it well. They were responsible for backstopping, monitoring and supervising all the work of the CBOs, TBAs and COSAs at the community level. The health promoters stated that if they, the project field staff and health centre personnel were not diligently following up the CBOs, then the quality of work dropped very quickly. The health promoters collected project data on a monthly basis and forwarded it to the health districts and Plan. The promoters participated (as student trainers in the 2nd and 3rd year of the project) in a majority of the training sessions for the CBOs which were conducted by the project and the district and health center staff. Once they acquired the relevant knowledge and mastered the training techniques, they then carried out the training of 21 CBOs in the final year of the project, with project management playing a supervisory role. The health promoters worked with the CBOs on a daily basis, and in collaboration with the MOH staff when they provided outreach. For example, when the MOH staff finalized their outreach schedule, then the promoters would organize people for outreach immunization and other activities. During outreach, the health promoters, health committee and CBO members and TBAs were part of the team carrying out activities and worked closely with the health center staff in charge. Usually when the health staff was doing technical work, the health promoters would provide health education, demonstrations and other activities with mothers. A topic would be selected and they would work with mothers on it. They would also take full advantage of all opportunities to provide teaching and education in follow up to consultations carried out between mothers and health center staff. For instance, when a patient was diagnosed with malaria by the health center staff, then the promoter would work with the patient and/or caregiver to teach them about malaria prevention and treatment. They also assisted in the training of TBAs conducted by the proj...